From the perspective of the author, Father’s dream is also doomed to fail。 文献综述

“Sherwood Anderson, as the author of The Egg, was a peculiar writer in the American Literature。 Anderson had his own picture of what a story should be。 He was not interested in telling “plot stories” that filled the magazines。 They are stories in which events are more important than emotions。 Anderson broke the pattern and never held back any information to create suspense。 The narrator, through his usually disorderly information, shares everything he knows。 Yet when it comes to a certain point, it becomes clear that there is something extremely significant in commonplace the narrator talks about。 As a result, the tales from Anderson’s Midwestern drawl are not incidents or episodes, but they are moments of revelation, each complete in itself。 Such a “moment” is captured in the story “The Egg” (Zhang 120)。

     When the father became indignant at the egg and the visitor Joe Kane’s difference, he suddenly got insane but after a while, he came to realizing the reality, the falsities of his dream。 All of a sudden, the father began to cry at the end of the story。